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The hangman who botched the execution of a drug smuggler in Iran earlier this month might not get a chance to finish the job after all. The country's justice minister says there is "no need" to re-hang the man, who was pronounced dead by a doctor after 12 minutes spent at the end of a rope but was found alive in the prison morgue the next day.

The minister says hanging the man a second time would hurt the country's image, although the final decision will be left to the courts, the BBC reports. But the courts may not have to ponder the bizarre case: The man, a 37-year-old father of two, reportedly fell into a coma yesterday.

I am aghast! Shocked! Utterly confounded the Iran justice system would go against the most obvious miracle of Allah! The man was repreved by Divine Will from a sentence handed down by men! Regardless of the man's crime, it is Willed that he live! You can't have it both ways!

AlunPalmer

Oct 23, 2013 6:45 PM CDT

England doesn't hang people anymore, and when we did the settled law was that there could be no second hanging if it went wrong. I think they were pardonned on the very rare occasions that this happened, OTOH, it seldom did.